I took this last summer. It’s an entrance to one of the Colleges of Cambridge University, I can’t remember which one. The lush green grass caught my eye and the fact that it looks like a late student had crashed their bicycle outside and dashed through the entrance to their lecture!
The next instalment of Arcane Insane is on its way this evening!
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Both Cambridge and Oxford are a photographer’s dream!
They certainly are! I’ve a whole library of photos from Cambridge that I never get round to sharing.
Cool! I love the pile-o-bikes out front!
It’s bike madness in Cambridge, I think they grow them somewhere and unleash them on the city!
An entrance that says “This college is closed ot all visitors: No right of way through the college”?
Wicked sense of humour.
You should see the well dressed Porter’s with their bowler hats and funny walks! They patrol the entrances sometimes and shoo away undesirable folks!
Great pic!
Nice entrance Dave with bikes on it..It adds to the design making it lovely..=)
Love the pile of bikes too, gives you the feeling they were late, dumped the bikes as close as poss and rushed through the doors to get to class on time!
Needs more bikes! Fancy some photo manipulation?
If I had the time that would be a nice project! Add a whole range of bicycles in there and make it look very busy indeed!
I like the fact that it’s not busy….takes effort to want to study, it’s not given to everyone, especially at Cambridge. I have never understood this photo manipulation business anyway, what’s wrong with things just as they are? We live in a wonderful world, sometimes we forget that!
I’ve dabbled with my share of photo manipulation and graphic design, which used to earn me a meagre crust in the past! I’m not much of a photographer, I just snap away in the hope something will look good later on when I get the photos back on my pc!
The only problem with Oxford and Cambridge is you have to avoid the bikes but they do make for great photographs, as do the entrances to some of the colleges…
They certainly are everywhere, but you can’t blame folks for using them to get around, cheap and it’s a great way to stay in shape!
Nice photo. Love the pile of bikes.
Great shot of a lovely entrance! Must be nice to live in a place where you can find something that suggests tradition… around here there are a handful of building dating back to the War of 1812 but that’s about it. You probably have kebob stands older than that.
It’s strange to walk through Cambridge and see so many tourists taking photos. When you live in a place long enough you just take your surroundings for granted. So when I stop to see what people are pointing at it reminds me the city is crammed with history. I’m not a fan of London, it’s too noisy and the people there are very rude! But Cambridge is a delightful place, bustling and vibrant but kinda quiet at the same time.
Wonder what London feels like to walk around now 😦
I went last year for a day and didn’t really enjoy it.
I understand completely. I was born in Montreal and lived there until I was 45 years old and took for granted the 300 year old buildings (one of which housed a Sbarro restaurant), the mix of architecture, the back-to-back summer festivals, the winters that anywhere else would be considered debilitating, etc.and I didn’t do nearly enough photography of that city. My very best photos in my new home were taken after I had been here for just a few months — just long enough to have begun to know my way around yet still in the honeymoon period of my residency here. I am sure there are Parisians who do not have a photo of the Eiffel Tower, Egyptians who have never visited the Pyramids, and Chinese who walk past the Great Wall without ever taking a snapshot there.
Great shot and I love that you can’t remember which college it is because there are just too many!
Thanks Patti! I feel as if I should know the name of it but like you say there are so many it’s not easy to remember which one I stroll by every time!
Heheheh, that is awesome, I love the fact that they are crashed 🙂
Beautiful entrance … love the crashed bike! Wish I’d had a camera when I was there, long time ago.
Cambridge and Bicycles…. Nice one 🙂
No visitor please! So whose bike are those?